Docker is a platform for building, shipping, and running applications inside lightweight, portable containers. Created by Solomon Hykes in 2013 and released as open-source software, Docker packages an application together with everything it needs to run - code, runtime, system libraries, and configuration - so it behaves identically on a developer's laptop, a staging server, and in production. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is the de facto standard for containerization across the industry. Docker development is in steady demand in Poland as more teams move existing applications into containers and adopt container-based CI/CD. According to Enlyft's technology-adoption tracking, 267,047 companies use Docker in production, giving it roughly 37% market share among virtualization platforms.